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SASSARI 
Orto BoTANIco 
Via Rizzedder 
Established: 1888. 
Directors: Fausto Morini (1888-1892) ; Leopoldo Nicotra (1892- 
*) 
Note: An earlier small botanic garden was completely abandoned 
in 1853. 
SIENNA 
OrtTo BoTANICO DELLA R. UNIVERSITA DI SIENNA 
Via P. A. Mattioli 2 
Established: 1784, 
Directors: 
Biagio Bartalini (1783-1822) 
Giuseppe Giuli (1822-1851) 
Giovanni Campani (1851-1860) 
. Attilio Tassi (1860—?) 
Arturo Nannizzi (1937) 
Note: In 1588 a professorship of “ Simples ’ 
the University of Sienna by Grand Duke Ferdinand, of Tuscany. 
The first professor was Adriano Moreschini (1588-1617). The 
seventh professor, Pirro Maria Gabbrielli (1669-1706), formed 
about 1684 a herbarium of plants collected in the surrounding 
fields. This garden was, in time, annexed to the Hospital of S. 
Maria della Scala. In 1756 the lectureship of simples was dis- 
continued, and three years later there was instituted a course of in- 
struction in Natural History, given by Giuseppe Boldassarri, physi- 
cian to the Monk superior of Monte Oliveto Maggiore. Boldas- 
sarri (1759-1782) had enriched the small Pharmaceutical Garden 
of that Monastery. Finally, in 1784, Pietro Leopold, Grand Duke 
of Tuscany, decided to establish at Sienna a true botanic garden, 
and to transform for that purpose, the Orto dei Semplici annexed 
to the Hospital of S. Maria della Scala. Biagio Bartalini, who 
succeeded Boldassarri, became first director of the Orto Botanico, 
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